Associate Director, Project Management

Company Description

Publicis New York is a full-service communications agency with a focus on creating culturally relevant consumer platforms in broadcast, digital advertising, web development, social, CRM and experiential channels. Our healthcare team has over twenty years of growing leading healthcare brands across a broad range of categories including vaccines, immunology, women’s health, food/nutrition and oncology. We have a passion for uncovering the cultural opportunity for every health brand and we bring insights from our diverse client roster, including P&G, Citi, Walmart, Nestle, Abbott, L’Oreal, T-Mobile, to our health brands.

 

As part of the Publicis agency network, we strive to “Lead the Change” for our client’s businesses and be their preferred creative partners in their marketing transformations. We believe that change has become the defining characteristic in today’s business environment. Creating leading strategies and powerful ideas that allow our clients’ brands to become unique, irreplaceable, in control and ahead is our purpose. You have to lead the change, if you don’t want to be led by change. Are you ready to lead the change?

Job Description

The Associate Director, Project Manager is the team’s Project Management lead, ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. The Associate Director leads a multi-skill (ie online and offline) team of project managers. This person owns project definition, scope monitoring, budgeting & timing at the brand level. Career-manages a team of direct reports.

Knowledge

• Ensures that the Project Management team utilizes a flexible Project Management approach that adheres to established processes, yet remains open to novel ways of getting the work done
• Leads large teams to drive complex programs/campaigns to completion based on scope and budget.
• Talent Development: Hire and retain highly-capable people while fostering diversity and career development
• SOWs: Accountable for the development, accuracy and maintenance of all team SOWs
• Client finances: Collaborates (with Business Manager if available) to provide accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects and brands

Strategy

• Resource allocation: Reviews all projects across account to determine resource and skill requirements; partners with Resource Management to drive resource allocation management; ensures the right resources are cast to the need
• Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies
• Quality Control: Structures and leads project status reviews; leads cross-team post-completion review
• Informing: Partners with account team to provide appropriate communication directly to clients in an effort to clearly manage expectations
• Risk Management: Leads large teams to develop and manage risk mitigation plans

Tactics and Execution

• Agency Cost Management: Vigilantly seeks to optimize both agency services and internal resources
• Management: Responsible for the career development of others
• Execution: Prioritizes work in progress (WIP) with production and account teams to pull work forward and break bottlenecks
• Vendors: Point of escalation for vendor management concerns
• Scope Definition: Scopes and estimates complex, multi-channel engagements

Relationships

• Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Collaborative business partner to team capability leads
• Client Relationship: Client-facing lead on issues related to production and Project Management

Qualifications

About You:

• You’re comfortable being client facing
• You have strong conflict management skills
• You have knowledge in Microsoft Office including Excel
• You have advanced knowledge of digital projects
• If you have knowledge of broadcast/video production it’s a plus!
• If you have knowledge of digital project routing systems it’s a plus!

Additional Information

Compensation Range: $91,000 - $154,000 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application window for this job posting will end 12/14/2023.